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Today, the earth is still. Just for one breath. Just for one moment.

Twice a year, the sun crosses the celestial equator. Day and night hold equal power, neither dominates the other, both are balanced. This is the equinox. A liminal threshold, a silent pause between extremes.

In the Northern Hemisphere, it is the Autumnal Equinox, a descent into shadow, a cooling breath, a drawing inward.
In the Southern Hemisphere, it is the Vernal Equinox, an emergence from stillness, a pulse of new life, a turning outward.

For Satanists, these moments are meant to be felt, claimed as our own, and channeled in to a productive working that has positive effects on our lives.

A Brief History of the Equinox

Throughout ancient cultures, long before science named it, the equinox marked a sacred turn. Egyptians aligned their pyramids to it. The Mayans built temples that lit up like serpents at sunset. The Druids held firelit rites at megalithic stones. Each saw this day not as superstition, but as an energetic hinge, a fulcrum upon which the year turns.

But to us, it means something deeper. As Satanists, we mark the equinox not because we are beholden to nature, but because we recognize our own reflection in it. We do not beg the sky for mercy, for we do not fear change. We do not submit to these cycles in nature, we live to understand them, we use them to shape our own destinies. 

Northern Hemisphere: Autumn Equinox – The Descent

Here, the light begins to descend into darkness. Leaves crisp and fall from their branches. The night stretches its arms wider as the harvest is gathered but something in you knows it’s also a time of letting go.

This is the descent into the shadows, the darkness that becomes our world, but for us, these shadows are not despair. they are a potential. It's where your real work begins.

Use this time to allow your life to shed, shed your expectations, shed your distractions shed false narratives. Ask yourself: What is no longer feeding me? Let it rot. Let it fall away. Nature doesn’t mourn the leaves it sheds, it transforms them into something that will help it grow in the next cycle!

Let this season be a personal descent. Not into weakness or sadness but into clarity that you can overcome everything before you and come back out on top with new growth!

Southern Hemisphere: Vernal Equinox – The Awakening

If you're under southern skies, you're rising, enhancing your own light. The light is returning as the soil softens. What was still is now stirring, not in a manic burst, but in a careful unfolding of what is new and what was shed. 

This is not about hope, as we all know hope does nothing, your actions are what make things possible. This is about your decisions. You get to choose what takes root and what grows, what blooms from your choices.

Use this time to plant your new choices with true intention. Ritualize routines that will help move you forward, ever forward. Breathe life into forgotten goals so that your desires fuel them back into existence. Your dreams are not seasonal. But this is a season to water them, nurture them, become them!

Emotional Magic & The Satanic Ritual of Balance

Anton LaVey wrote clearly: “Man is just another animal.” But unlike the beasts we share the world with, we are both "cursed" and "blessed" with human awareness. These seasons still pull at us, still shape us, but we have our strength in our will and are the ones who can choose how to respond.

Nature doesn't ask for anything, it doesn't reason, it just IS! It consumes, erupts, decays, and returns. It’s never moral, it runs on cycles, creation and destruction, birth and death. And that's why we honor it, why we align with it.

To be in balance, by Satanic standards, is not to find your peace of mind, it’s also to find power in your contrast. The indulgent and the ascetic. The creator and the destroyer. Your internal light and internal shadow, what we are to be human.

So ask yourself:
Where have I given too much?
Where have I held back from deserving more?
Where have I forgotten that we live in nature, and how I should shape it for me?

This equinox is a perfect moment for emotional magic, the kind you don’t stage for others, but keep for yourself and carve quietly into your days (our daily rituals, the things we do in life to change the outcome of it). In Lesser Magic be it a charged glance or a whispered name. In Greater Magic, the full rituals we do in the shadows. In both cases our medallions warmed by our emotions, which infuses them with energy.

Write your goals into compassion rituals or burn your fears in a destruction ritual, what you choose doesn’t matter, its the energy you produce that does.

Which brings us to the sigil that carries it all…

The Sigil of Baphomet: A Conduit of Equinox Energy

In the stillness between the seasons, our symbols speak just as loud as our words do. Both help to generate the energy needed for our workings.

The Sigil of Baphomet, our sharp and centered, a mirrored image, an equilibrium forged in fires of Hell. The symbol we hold most high, part of our history, a focus of pure power. 
Anton LaVey decided that this particular symbol was the one which most fully embodied the principles which were the bedrock of the first aboveground Satanic church. (Read the full history of the Sigil of Baphomet)

Worn in our everyday lives, the Sigil of Baphomet medallion becomes more than a piece of jewelry, it becomes amplifier, you don't just wear it, you charge it, with your thoughts, your will, your strong emotions which can then be released in our magic out into the world, bending it to our will.

Let it collect your energy, absorb your clarity, and remind you:
You are not becoming. You are not lost. You are exactly where you need to be, you chose this left hand path and you are better for it!

And you don’t need light to see, we function just fine in the darkness and the darkness gives us a place for our light to shine through! Balance!

Closing the Circle

Whether you’re stepping into darkness or light today, feel it, become it, shape it, twist it into something that benefits you! Because Satanism doesn't bend to the seasons and a Satanist is a force that uses the emotional energies of the seasons to bend the world to our will. 

And that’s what makes this day sacred and emotional... its about us!

Wear your will on your chest. Charge your Sigil of Baphomet with emotion. Ritualize your equinox.
→ Browse the Sigil of Baphomet Medallions

Don’t wait for the next season, Spring, Fall, Winter, Summer, they just arrive!